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Mariscus bulbosus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus bulbosus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by G. Kkenthal, 1930 Mariscus bulbosus (Vahl) Vorster [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by P. Vorster, 1984
Related name
  • Mariscus bulbocaulis
  • Mariscus pictus
  • Cyperus clarkei
  • Kyllinga panicea
  • Mariscus bulbosus
  • Mariscus clarkei
  • Cyperus biglumis
  • Cyperus bulbosus
  • Kyllinga bulbosa
  • Cyperus bulbocaulis

Flora

Entry for Mariscus bulbocaulis Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
Mariscus bulbocaulis Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 102.
Mariscus bulbosus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 62.
Kyllinga bulbosa Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 597, not of Beauv.
Cyperus bulbocaulis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 372; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 144, not
Cyperus bulbocaulis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 408.
Information
Glabrous. Stems 4–6 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the base ovoid-thickened and enclosed by brown scarious leaf-sheaths. Leaves 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/12 in. broad. Head of 3–2 ovoid spikes nearly fused into 1 dense head 1/4– 1/2 in. in diam., pale straw-coloured, more or less purple-spotted; bracts 3–4, similar to the leaves, dilated at the base, spreading, the lowest up to 2–3 in. long. Spikelets 1/8 in. long, ovoid-oblong in fruit, ripening 1 nut only. Glumes ovate, acuminate, hardly acute, thin, with 5–7 obscure ribs. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, broadly ellipsoid, somewhat obovoid, trigonous, black. Style shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, long.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; on hills near Enderder, Schimper, 579! and without precise locality, Schimper, 229!

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